President Barack Obama’s first post-WH stop: ‘On a beach somewhere’

President Barack Obama’s post-White House plans include serious work to reach out to young people, he said Tuesday — but first, he’ll get in some time in the sand.

As soon as the next president is sworn in, Obama plans to be “on a beach somewhere, drinking out of a coconut,” he said in response to a question about his plans for the next decade that came at a session hosted by microblogging site Tumblr. “But that probably won’t last too long.”

POLITICO reported last week on Obama’s thinking about his post-presidency work, which one source said the president described as giving young people “more of an opportunity to become engaged — both furthering their careers and pursuing their duties as citizens.” Obama has looked at the work done by former President Bill Clinton as a model, and the current first couple has discussed post-White House plans with the Clintons, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said this week during book tour interviews.

On Tuesday, Obama hinted at the same sort of broad-based outreach to young people. That direction would expand upon the narrower targeting of his My Brother’s Keeper initiative, which is reaching out to boys and young men of color.

“I’m so impressed when I meet young people around the country. They’re full of passion. They’re full of ideas. I think they’re much wiser and smarter than I was — part of it maybe is because of Tumblr, I don’t know,” he said. “And so there’s just huge potential. And the challenge is, they’re also fed a lot of cynicism. You guys are fed a lot of cynicism every single day about how nothing works and big institutions stink and government’s broken, and so you channel a lot of your passion and energy into various private endeavors.”

But Obama didn’t offer any hints Tuesday about where he might want to live once moving out of the White House — though friends have said he’s looking at New York and Hawaii in addition to his adopted hometown of Chicago.